And on the topic of free speech...
Okay, so I have been kinda posting about this for the last two days, and I am finally really going to write about it.
LiveJournal is owned by a company called Six Apart. Six Apart has taken it upon itself to “purge” LiveJournal of about 500 journals and communities. They reason they are giving is that the journals/communities support illegal activity. Good right? Only, the illegal activity they seem to be going after is fanfiction that includes things like child-sex and incest. Well, your view on those topics aside... they are stories written about fictional characters. These are not real life children. No on is acting on anything. Some very famous writers wrote on these very topics. And yet, LiveJournal finds itself in the position to delete these works.
This is an outright violation of Free Speech.
For more information, news.com has a very informative article on what has been happening. You know it’s serious when it has made it out of LJ.
Now, I would really like it if LJ would make an official post explaining what is happening.
Let me remind you that Romeo and Juliet took place when Juliet was only 14, and she got married and slept with Romeo. And almost every VC Andrews book is about incest.
Just saying.
LiveJournal is owned by a company called Six Apart. Six Apart has taken it upon itself to “purge” LiveJournal of about 500 journals and communities. They reason they are giving is that the journals/communities support illegal activity. Good right? Only, the illegal activity they seem to be going after is fanfiction that includes things like child-sex and incest. Well, your view on those topics aside... they are stories written about fictional characters. These are not real life children. No on is acting on anything. Some very famous writers wrote on these very topics. And yet, LiveJournal finds itself in the position to delete these works.
This is an outright violation of Free Speech.
For more information, news.com has a very informative article on what has been happening. You know it’s serious when it has made it out of LJ.
Now, I would really like it if LJ would make an official post explaining what is happening.
Let me remind you that Romeo and Juliet took place when Juliet was only 14, and she got married and slept with Romeo. And almost every VC Andrews book is about incest.
Just saying.